Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy

Luciano Baracco

doi:10.5771/9781498558822

Summary

Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day. Over its 30 year period of development, the autonomy process on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast can be seen as a crucible for the autonomous struggles of minority peoples throughout the Latin American continent. Autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast remains highly contested, being simultaneously characterized by progress, setbacks, and violent confrontation within a number of fields and involving a multiplicity of local, national, and global actors. This experience offers critical lessons for efforts around the world that seek to resolve long-established and deep-seated ethnic conflict by attempting to reconcile the need for development, usually fostered by national governments through neo-extractivist policies, with the protection of minority rights advocated by marginalized minorities living within nation states and, increasingly, by intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States. This book presents analyses that reveal the broad implications for the struggle for autonomy on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, conducted by scholars with expertise in an array of disciplines including sociology, globalization theory, anthropology, history, socio-linguistics, cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, and political science.

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Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5881-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5882-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. The Evolution of Indigenous Autonomy No access
2. The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. Historical Background No access
2. From “Big Men” to Kingship: An Ethnohistory of the Miskitu People No access
3. The Mosquito Reservation and the Reincorporación No access
4. The Rebellion of Sam Pitts No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Golden Era of the Company Times No access
2. Neocolonial Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Nicaragua No access
3. Miskitu Participation in Neocolonial Economy No access
4. Interethnic Relations under the Neocolonial System No access
5. Final Notes of Historiography No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Sandinista Front for National Liberation: Race, Class, and Anti-Imperialism No access
2. Revolution in Bluefields: The Rise and Fall of the Black Sandinistas No access
3. From Acquiescence to Ethnic Insurgency: Miskitu Responses to the Sandinista Revolution No access
4. Modernization, Ethnic Identity, and the “Rebirth” of Autonomy No access
5. From Ethnic Rights to Anti-communism and Back Again: Peace Negotiations and the Movement towards Autonomy No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. The Rights to Autonomy No access
2. Saneamiento: Title Clearance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Territories No access
3. The Proposed Interoceanic Canal and the Rama-Kriol People No access
4. The Bluefields Creoles’ Quest for Ownership of Communal Land: Limited Restitution of Territorial Rights No access
5. Undermining of Legitimate Indigenous and Afro-descendant Authorities No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Autonomy in the Rama-Kriol Territory No access
2. Negotiating a Framework for Consultation No access
3. Consulting on the Canal: “We Cannot Have Excessive Democracy” No access
4. Rebuilding in the Aftermath of the Consultation Process No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. The Frontera Agrícola No access
2. The Framework of Autonomy: 1987–2017 No access
3. Colono Mass Migration and Conflict in La Mosquitia No access
4. Colono Migration: A Horizontal and Vertical Structural Analysis No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Antecedents of War and Its Human Cost No access
2. Testimonies of Miskitu Women from Their Experience of War No access
3. The Sociopolitical Role of Indigenous Women in Achieving Peace No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Matrilocality among the Miskitu No access
2. Discussion No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. The Caribbean Coast—the Sociolinguistic Context No access
2. Case Studies No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 229 - 234
About the Editor No access Pages 235 - 236
About the Contributors No access Pages 237 - 240